Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-18

! along Tor the tour Of sixteen weeks In
the FIX principal cities of the Union.
People out Of town will then have an
crIoItuIity of passing Judgment on
he most successful theatrical produc-
ton that New York has ever known.
Mr.. John A. Mackay reappeared after
q long absence from the stage in very
queer and grewsome specimen OF a
play called "Circus IN Town" It was
most lugubrious failure as a piece, as
there was not the most remote chance
for any one TO make any fun, the role
Of the leading comediln being about as
lieLtsome, dashiDg, add gay as ten
year-old mudple. Ii begins to look rs
though the public had become some
what satiated with what is called farci-
cal comedy, which usually consists Of
vulger horse play interiected bodily
into more or less monotonous variety
| business.
THE INFLUX FROM TIE COUNTRY.
4 New Yorker III the streets Of his
native city IS now a common sight
Everybody is returning to town. The
streets are blocked by express wagons
pied TO mountainous heights with
| trunks, blinds are being thrown open
| from one end OF the town 10 the other
end there is a general air of dust, stir
and excitement. During the past two
onths tie streets presented n strange
" unfamiliar look. Whileit is no longer
possible to pick cut the state from
which stranger halls from his appear.
ance on Broadway, and while the buco-
lie and suburban visitor has been vastly
and pcrcoptibly toned up during the
past three years. there is still decided
/ difference between a native New Yorker
and man from out OF town. Hotel
clerks claim that they can detect even
yet the difference between New
Yorker and a Bostonian or Philadei-
phian at sight, hut | doubt if their
judgment is Infallible. What has struck
me particularly in noticing the visitors
from out of town is the fact that the
hack-country contingent Is far less
healthy looking than the natives OF
New York as regards the women. One
day in August ! sat for two hours in a
window at the Hoffman House and
watched 5000 people, NOR or less, file
slowly by. / was waiting for an in
ming steamer and | forgot all about
the impending arrival while watching
tie crowd. Not more than 10 per cent
were natives. There was lack of ro-
business and yigor about the women
that was startling when compared with
the sQuarc-shouldered, straight, ath-
letic, and handsomely-built New York
pills The visitors were nearly ali
round-shouldercd, flat across the chest,
and of wabbing gait. This cf. ct may
in some instances have been due 10 bad
drcs-mabcrs ard ill-ftting gowns, but
in the majority OF instances there was
a decided lack of rOundness and full
ness in the figure. All of this was Doubt
less tie eject of early and oyerwork.
/ doubt il any of the women hive
lave CXCrted themselves more violent
ly in working for their husbands and
D., Tiers than the New York girls have
in working for pleasure and fun, hut
ucra is difference in using the mus
clos IN washing dishes and leaning
over n vaah-tub on one hand and play
ing tennis, riding spirited horses, and
Yachting on the other. To play
tennis lIrl must stand straight
and throw her arms over her
lead in manner that develops
the muscles Of the chest and back and
forces her to stand in graceful and
Ccct manner. In the same way horse
buck exercise and yachting brings color
To- the checks and builds up health in
tie open air. The eject Of these
l4stimos is just as surely discornabie
III tic stuuniugand spirited appearance
Of New York girls rs the effect OF long
lcms, Of laborious toll, and much
stepping over household duties is pltcnt
in the daughters Of the more remote
towns, who are obliged 10 take hold of
tle working end Of life before they arc
fully developed.
1 DO lot think that the New York
men have kept pace with their sisters
in the matter of physical Development
There is great deal Of talk about the
influence of the various athletic associ-
atoms and OF The militia organizations
in building up the figures OF the youth
OF New York, but in point Of fact, eX-
copiing in very pronounced cases, the
Youth of New York is not q spectacular
success. Tie prevalence of flat chests.
skinny l,cs, and round shoulders
8morg de natives here IS not 10 be
eainsaid. The high and rapid living
of the men of n generation ago Is seen
in their sons of to-day. The sons viii
not pull out Of the rut, and itall points
to the degeneracy i'll the physical future
II New York men. At q Dclmouico
bah or at the opera hcnumber Of puny,
understood, and unhealthy-looking
men who walk about oscorting magnii-
cent wives and daughters is notable.
Some Of tire women are almost ablaZe
with youth, beauty, and perfect health,
while their husbands and brothers
walk at their sides, smaller III build
aud lower III stature, pallid and IN
healthy looking, and vastly inferior in
every physical point. But the men
from out Of town who have kept New
York streets alive during the past two
months lIe apparently made of stur-
der stuff. Their coats may not
iii TO perfection, but 1t only
takes half an eye to see beneath the
folds square shoulders, deep chest, and
the big punches OF muscles that can
contribute more to mans appearance
dian all the tailors in the world.
why Richmond ShOuld Have Il